A rumour is going round the Telegraph newsroom that the paper is on the block for £250 million – though the mood of the Barclay brothers on this is said to be variable – they bought the group for £665 million in 2004. Multiple Telegraph sources have independently approached Guido this afternoon saying the Barclays are considering selling. Separately Guido understands that two consortia are circling…

UPDATE:A spokesman for the Barclays gets in touch with the same statement they sent out the last time these rumours circulated:“There are no plans to sell Telegraph Media Group or any part of it and there never have been.”

Tells you everything you need to know about the dire situation at the Telegraph that their widely respected political-editor has, Guido can reveal, quit to join lobbyists Crosby Text Fullbrook Partners. Guido understands that Telegraph executives tried to convince him to stay. CTF’s reputation made it an opportunity too good to miss…

Rumours are emanating from Telegraph towers that the paper is battling to keep its political editor Peter Dominiczak. There is speculation Dominiczak has tried to resign and that he wants to make some money in financial PR. Telegraph bosses are apparently trying to stop him from leaving. Tells you everything you need to know about the dire situation at the Telegraph that they’re battling to convince their widely respected pol ed not to quit journalism…

UPDATE: Guido hears special correspondent Tom Morgan, another talented and hugely well-liked journalist, has quit the paper. Sports writer Steve James has been made redundant. Education editor Javier Espinoza is also leaving despite only joining last year.

Another departure from the Telegraph: the paper’s Religious and Social Affairs editor of five years John Bingham is leaving to spin for God, he’s the new comms chief at the Church of England. It means the former paper of the Tory Party at Prayer is now without a religious affairs editor. They are still without a Brussels correspondent as well – good thing Britain’s relationship with Europe is out of the news at the moment. Replacements to these key roles are not happening and Guido is told to expect a number of other imminent departures. Notices are being primed…

Early teething problems for the new Telegraph Premium project? Several readers have been in touch to express their surprise that this was the front page of the Telegraph website this morning, splashing on Prime Minister’s David Cameron’s response to the Tata steel crisis. It also carried a story that the ONS were told to tell the truth on immigration before the EU referendum. Stories from a year ago. Oops…

The Telegraph had written 300 words and hit the publish button before they realised that a tweet from ‘Philip May’ about his conference suit was sent by a parody account. According to their report:

Philip May, husband of Prime Minister Theresa May, has taken to Twitter to reveal the outfit he wore to join his wife on stage at the Conservative Party conference is “model’s own”… Philip May has broken with this tradition, which has previously been criticised as sexist, and drew attention to it with a quip on social media. The Prime Minister’s husband wrote on Twitter: “Thank you for the kind words about my appearance at conference today. My suit – for those who asked – was from my wardrobe!”

Except he didn’t, the tweet was sent by an account clearly marked ‘parody’. The Telegraph article has now been deleted and lost down the memory hole forever. You can still read a cached version here…

For the first time in recent memory there will be no Telegraph party at Tory conference. Traditionally the Torygraph bash has one of the more exclusive guestlists – Dave and George used to show up, Philip Hammond was once turned away – this year they’ve canned the whole thing. Sticking five figures behind the bar so execs can get sloshed with the Cabinet wouldn’t be a good look in a year when they’ve laid off so many journalists. Shame, the Facebook live stream would have gone totes viral…

Guido hears the Telegraph’s respected Senior Political Correspondent Tim Ross is leaving to join Bloomberg. Author of ‘Why the Tories won‘, Ross pretty much writes the paper on Sundays so that will be a major gap to fill. He’ll be working for Bloomberg in Westminster with a focus on Brexit. The Lobby team at the Telegraph has so far been relatively incubated from job losses. But would you really want to stay?

Today’s Telegraph goes big on the news that Jeremy Corbyn once called for the “complete rehabilitation” of Leon Trotsky, reporting: “It came to light after parliamentary staff on Monday uncovered a paper record of the demand in an underground archive in Westminster”.[…] Read the rest

The Telegraph’s obsession with clickbait and viral content is revealed in the “trending” team’s weekly bulletin to staff. What was the most-read story on the site this week? Their coverage of Cameron’s crony honours perhaps? Or maybe their excellent investigation into bribes paid to Iraqis to sue British troops?[…] Read the rest

Experienced journalists are being laid off at the Telegraph, but the hipster, trendy and trending content producers who still have jobs are being kept sweet. This poster is up in the loos at Buckingham Palace Road, offering Telegraph staff “two adult micro scooters for company workers to use at lunch time or to borrow at the weekends”.[…] Read the rest

May’s fast-paced reshuffle is clearly frazzling some, with the Telegraph Politics first saying the new Justice Secretary Liz Truss had been moved to education, and then using a picture of Jeremy Hunt when referring to Gavin Williamson. They had one job…

Reproduced in full below is a Telegraph article by Jonathan Foreman* headlined “Theresa May is a great self-promoter, but a terrible Home Secretary”, which was pulled after pressure from her campaign. It is excoriating…

In the run-up to the 2015 election, one of the handicaps David Cameron had to finesse was the fact that net migration to the UK was three times as high as he had promised it would be.

Catherine Gee, a culture writer for the Telegraph, compares Farage to Adolf Hitler, founder of the Third Reich, responsible for the deaths of 85,000,000 people in World War II and initiator of the previous German attempt at a European superstate.[…] Read the rest